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Revisiting syslog-gollector

It’s been 18 months since the first commit to my first significant Go project — syslog-gollector. After an initial burst of activity to create a functional Syslog Collector that streamed to Apache Kafka, the source code hadn’t been updated much since. But today I received a report that it no longer built, so I spent some time porting the code to the latest Shopify Sarama framework.

It was amusing to see how naive much of my early Go code was.

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Designing a search system for log data — part 3

This is the last part of a 3-part series “Designing and building a search system for log data”. Be sure to check out part 1 and part 2.

ekanite-cubeIn the last post we examined the design and implementation of Ekanite, a system for indexing log data, and making that data available for search in near-real-time. Is this final post let’s see Ekanite in action.

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Designing a search system for log data — part 2

This is the second part of a 3-part series “Designing and building a search system for log data”. Be sure to check out part 1. Part 3 follows this post.

ekanite-cubeIn the previous post I outlined some of the high-level requirements for a system that indexed log data,  and makes that data available for search, all in near-real-time. Satisfying these requirements involves making trade-offs, and sometimes there are no easy answers.

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